mHealth's Enabling Role in Healthcare Reform
m-Health (mobile telehealth) solutions can help improve the present healthcare system and enable the legislative initiatives currently under way, including the National Broadband Plan, the HITECH Act and the Beacon Community Grants. Furthermore, m-Health can address many of the challenges that healthcare innovators collectively face in getting their health IT solutions deployed.
The Federal Communication Commission's (FCC) recent report, National Broadband Plan - America's Plan, and articles from MobiHealthNews served as a springboard for the issues presented in this document. In Chapter 10: Healthcare, of the National Broadband Plan, the FCC discusses the role of broadband in enabling health IT adoption to address the problems within the current healthcare system. In particular, the plan discusses repositioning healthcare initiatives with the right technology incentives to bring cost efficiencies into the system in a timely manner.
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